The Diesel Cartel's RCSB 6.7 Race/Street Truck Build

josh@thedieselcartel · Apr 13, 2015

Got some boxes of awesome today.

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Randy_270 · Apr 13, 2015

I wish I had a stack of money laying around I could "accidentally" leave in picturesLOL

Excited to see this thing done!!

josh@thedieselcartel · Apr 13, 2015

Randy_270 said:
I wish I had a stack of money laying around I could "accidentally" leave in picturesLOL

Excited to see this thing done!!

It was no accident! I sold the long bed from the truck this morning and that was the money the guy gave me. LOL

Randy_270 · Apr 13, 2015

More money to spend on the truck??

josh@thedieselcartel · Apr 13, 2015

Randy_270 said:
More money to spend on the truck??

Shoot that moneys already spent!

Pockets · Apr 13, 2015

This is moving along pretty quick... lookin forward to this for sure!

Inline6359 · Apr 13, 2015

Pockets said:
This is moving along pretty quick... lookin forward to this for sure!

Agreed. Unlike the last rcsb thread that just resulted lots of talk and only a rendering. :lame:

Logant_14 · Apr 13, 2015

^^WHS

josh@thedieselcartel · Apr 13, 2015

I agree. That thread had a lot of hope and died suddenly.

After some quick looking around today I found that the leaf springs may be a problem with the amount the frame needs to be shortened.

Because the 11-15 springs are so much longer than previous years I don't think the springs are going to work. They will end up under the can with the amount of frame that we need to remove.

We will look at a weld on 4 link kit tommorow and get some measurements and see where things sit. If we go that route in going to speak with king about ordering a set of custom front and rear coilovers. I will try to get the fronts to be made to sit the truck 1 or 1.5" lower than stock. Not sure if this is even possible but we will see what tommorow brings.

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under construction · Apr 13, 2015

4-link and coilovers!!:naughty:

bigrpowr · Apr 13, 2015

InMotionJosh said:
I agree. That thread had a lot of hope and died suddenly.

After some quick looking around today I found that the leaf springs may be a problem with the amount the frame needs to be shortened.

Because the 11-15 springs are so much longer than previous years I don't think the springs are going to work. They will end up under the can with the amount of frame that we need to remove.

We will look at a weld on 4 link kit tommorow and get some measurements and see where things sit. If we go that route in going to speak with king about ordering a set of custom front and rear coilovers. I will try to get the fronts to be made to sit the truck 1 or 1.5" lower than stock. Not sure if this is even possible but we will see what tommorow brings.

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king could not make coilovers for mine. I was bummed.

UNBROKEN · Apr 13, 2015

Has anyone tried QA1 or anyone else for coilovers?

swinky · Apr 13, 2015

InMotionJosh said:
The way I drink beer probably cheaper for you to ship the truck to me.

That's the spirit

UNBROKEN said:
Has anyone tried QA1 or anyone else for coilovers?

The dmax boys seem to love qa1 shocks, it'd be worth looking into I'm sure.

josh@thedieselcartel · Apr 13, 2015

I'll probably look into qa1 or Penske. Or I might go to fox. Fox clearly knows trucks but they also build all the coilovers for Ride Tech, and if your familiar with cars or air bags you know ride tech is good stuff

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UNBROKEN · Apr 13, 2015

With that line of thinking QA1 knows drag racing...and that's what you're doing so....

josh@thedieselcartel · Apr 13, 2015

UNBROKEN said:
With that line of thinking QA1 knows drag racing...and that's what you're doing so....

Im not against that idea. Would be nice to use a PMF coilover mount for the front too and get an adjustable coilover for the front to lower ride height and dial in the ride at the same time.

Inline6359 · Apr 13, 2015

Is using older shorter leaf packs out of the question?

josh@thedieselcartel · Apr 13, 2015

Inline6359 said:
Is using older shorter leaf packs out of the question?

Would have to move at least the front hanger. Don't know if the rear would have to move too.

Inline6359 · Apr 13, 2015

InMotionJosh said:
Would have to move at least the front hanger. Don't know if the rear would have to move too.

I would assume both hangers would have to move to keep the axle in the same location. Shorter springs and retaining the same rear hanger location would, I assume move the axle back.

josh@thedieselcartel · Apr 13, 2015

Inline6359 said:
I would assume both hangers would have to move to keep the axle in the same location. Shorter springs and retaining the same rear hanger location would, I assume move the axle back.

I assume the same thing. I know some of the older trucks were wanting to run 11+ leafs and i know someone, maybe pmf, came up with a front mount for this but don't recall anything changing in the rear. I never followed that mod closely so I'm probably mistaken.